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Ultra-Cheap Android Tablet Comes to India

UK company Datawind has launched its Aakash 2 tablet in India. It's an Android device that will be available to students at an extremely low price.

The Aakash 2 can be bought for Rs 3,500 ($64) on the market, but it will cost the Indian Ministry of Human Resource Development Rs 2,263 ($41), and with government subsidies it will be available to students at only Rs 1,130 ($21)

The Aakash 2 tablet sports a 1GHz Cortex A8 processor, 512MB of RAM, 4GB of memory (expandable to 32GB via a microSD card) and a 7-inch capacitive display with a 800×480 pixel resolution — not exactly top of the line, but enough to get most tasks done.

The tablet will run on Android 4.0, another big improvement over the original Aakash, which came out last year and was extremely low-specced, sporting a 366 MHz CPU and Android 2.2.

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